Time to bid for work...

The question you ask is are you losing guys that you really wanted to keep? And if you want to be a high quality firm, you will face attrition.

From Akshay's comment it does not look like they wanted her to leave. Also, it a sad reflection on a firm if your PA/counsels are not people you would want to retain.

She was an M&A lawyer for the last few years. The volume of M&A work in Trilegal has gone down since the A&O split and that's now beginning show in senior level departures.

As far as I know Rachika did a mix of projects and corporate work. The departures are all from non-corporate divisions - mainly Projects, and a few from Litigation/Regulatory.

That's a very arrogant comment. Truth is that Rachika was a very good lawyer and its Trilegal's failure that they are unable to retain top talent.

And these were all 6-9 year category - which is the usually what law firms usually lack. Quite a hit.

They can open a firm:-)

Avirup and Nishant were very good people..so was Rachika... very bad for Trilegal to lose them...
Some of the other names are definately not fit to be partner... having seen their work, i wouldn't trust my grandmother to them..

What an idea - get 6-7 good years out of your counsels, then send them to your clients as in-house counsels - you have a connection at the clients legal team and don't have to make them partners:-)

Obviously Akshay would rather comment than decline - he needs her business.

Certainly not hurting and it is an interesting approach by the 'kid'. Why should it be discouraged...

Quoting aksheemahi:

please reply me and my mail ID is

Kid. She won't reply to you. Ever.

If you want to be a lawyer, you should take the Common Law Admission Test (aka CLAT), and try to get into one of the top 5 national law universities. To prepare for CLAT, you should start in Class 11. You can Google CLAT and find out more. The official site is clat.ac.in.

@ 9.1/Bernard Fallon and 10.1/Associate: You guys are @$$hol€$, plain and simple. You have only grown in age and acquired a degree, but have no real sense or education – why discourage a kid or make comments that have the tendency to break the heart of one? Don’t say you are showing the kid the “real world” which is full of @$$hol€$ like you two.

Language Mr. Right!! The Kid may be reading this and not follow your first comment after reading your second comment, you see :)

Agree, but was pissed off. 15-16 year olds are very smart these days, so hopefully she'll start her prep for CLAT instead of focussing on comments here :)

@guardian angel: Woah! You are just throwing the poor kid into a profession that reports one of the lowest levels of satisfaction, the highest percentage of psychopaths, a very high incidence of substance abuse and suicide.

Agreed, always knew avirup to be a power/regulatory lawyer

Always thought trilegal was a projects power house!!!

Akshay is the son of Ms. Jaya Jaitley, who was a key figure in the now defunct Samata Party (later rejuvenated as the Janta Dal-United) and a close aide of its leader George Fernandes (who was defence minister in the Atal Vajpayee led NDA government from 1999-2004). Ms. Jaitley was featured in the sting operation that propelled Tehelka to fame, when she was allegedly seen to be accepting unaccounted money, apparently for her party, from a journalist pretending to be a representative of a foreign defence vendor and a purported middleman. The NDA government then turned the heat on Tehelka and its backers, seemingly by way of vengeance. Akhay was closely involved in his mother's defence during the subsequent enquiries and litigation, but very few people know that one of his own partners, Sridhar Gorthi of Trilegal's Mumbai office, was an early backer of Tehelka and was one of those who made a significant financial contribution to support Tehelka (probably unknown to Akhay). Gorthi was closely associated with the Tejpal family that ran Tehelka until recently and may have even professionally advised them in their early days. One does not know if this led to any issues amongst the partnership, but it does seem that it is an old matter and not so relevant today. Akhay's father Ashok Jaitley (who was estranged from his mother) was a senior bureaucrat and served as Chief Secretary of J&K, amongst other positions. So Akhay was indeed well connected in both political as well as administrative circles - but it would be unfair to impute that this led to any enhanced business for the firm - there is certainly no evidence of that, and Akhay is probably not the kind who would flaunt his connections.

Don't fully agree with you - they did some good deals (TAQA comes to mind)- however, agree with the tenor of the comments that they seem to be losing good people at mid/senior level - most of their transaction teams are staffed with fairly junior lawyers.